... elected them, and on the other hand they are Bank officials devoted to the interests and concerns of the institution The Executive Board of Directors has the overall responsibility for the general ... within the powers of the Board to hire and fire the President, in fact he is appointed by the US and at the end of the day he is only accountable to the President of the United States andthe US ... members of the Board of Governors, which convenes twice a year, once in the Spring and once during the Annual Meetings of theWorld Bank andthe IMF The role of the Board of Governors is rather limited,...
... director of the Zambian anti-poverty group “Women for Change,” asked: “What would they [the World Bank andthe IMF] say if we took them to theWorld Court in The Hague and accused them of genocide?”43 ... adjustment The World Bank andthe IMF THEWORLD BANK or the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) andthe International Monetary Fund (IMF) were created in 1944 by leaders of the ... Europe destroyed by the Second World War, the U.S was economically theworld s most powerful country; thus a U.S vision prevailed at the conference andtheWorld Bank andthe IMF were created...
... identified and contacted (both inside and outside of the Bank) leading up to and throughout the course of the fieldwork, and others were recommended by interviewees and others along the way Overall, the ... participation and partnership in the hands of theWorld Bank necessarily entail circumscribing representation and there is little evidence of compromise on the part of the organisation over the substance ... (Pincus and Winters 2002b) In pursuing their task, they andthe various contributors to the volume usefully identify what they see as the key facets of the new development agenda driven by the Bank...
... Shaw’s ‘Land, people and nation: historicist voices in the Highland land campaign, c.1850-1883’54, and Charles Withers’ The historical creation of the Scottish Highlands’.55 Gaelic and Highland cultural ... Black's view of the 20th century starts with the War, identifying it as the demarcation between the Highlands of the 19th century andthe Highlands of the 20th, and from this he traces the multifarious ... Cameron, Land for the People?, p.163 Ewen Cameron and Iain J.M Robertson, '''Fighting and Bleeding for the Land'': the Scottish Highlands andthe Great War' in Catriona M.M MacDonald and E.W McFarland...
... therefore involve the way in which both imagination and intellect (der Verstand, the understanding”) are in free play with each other – free in the sense that their interaction with each other is not ... together according to a purpose that we cannot state The solution to the “antinomy” of aesthetic judgment – that aesthetic judgments are normative and thus must be conceptual; and that aesthetic ... the moral law itself; and, in the same way, the apprehension of the beautiful in reflective judgment prompts one to take an interest in it Moreover, the moral andthe aesthetic are linked, for,...
... lists the heightening of global consciousness in the late 1960s andthe inclusion of the Third World, civil rights, interest in world civil society andworld citizenship, the increase in the number ... definition – the compression of theworldandthe intensification of consciousness of theworld as a whole’20 – by Roland Robertson Anthony Giddens defines globalisation as the intensification of worldwide ... continent andtheworld .112 Globalisation as a process encompasses the unconscious reactions andthe conscious responses to the cataclysm of this World Revolution’ The years 1914–89 (the outbreak...
... have to go on is the disorder as defined, the phenomena, not the noumena In other words, it is the strange beliefs, the hallucinations, and their contents, that we have to explain There has long ... reject theories, of aetiology and so on, before rejecting the theoretical construct represented by the syndrome We may nevertheless eventually decide that the syndrome has failed, in the sense ... schizophrenia is the heritability of positive symptoms, since it is from these that the condition is identified The potential association of 225 Cognition, emotion andthe social worldthe Val/Val...
... NPL 148 Netherlands NLD 149 Netherlands Antilles ANT 150 New Caledonia NCL 151 New Zealand NZL 152 Nicaragua NIC 153 Niger NER 154 Nigeria NGA 155 Niue NIU 156 Norfolk Island NFK 157 Northern Mariana ... Philippines Pitcairn Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Reunion Romania Russia Rwanda Saint Helena Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Vincent andthe Grenadines Samoa ... Sweden Switzerland Syria Taiwan (Republic of China) Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tokelau Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine...
... mighty rush to the firm shingle Out climbed the purser, the captain and two passengers, ploughing their way through the deep sand toward the hotel Merriam glanced toward them with the mild interest ... pered "I took the bottle with me I threw it out of the window of the train I there was another bottle in the cabinet there were two, side by side the aconite -and the valerian ... side door, walked him to the corner, ran him a block and caught a hansom They rode five minutes and then got out on a dark corner and dismissed the cab Across the street the lights of a small saloon...
... serve the interests of those to whom it was accountable REFORMING THEWORLD BANK During the 1980s, theWorld Bank andthe IMF advocated similar policies, and there were many similarities in the ... the left and right agreed that the improvement in the efficiency of resource allocation andthe increase in the supply of capital were at the heart of development They differed only as to whether ... and culture and is not easy to achieve From this perspective, theWorld Bank reforms, as incomplete as they may be, are impressive The contrast between the limited successes of the Bank and the...
... politics The Bank’s understanding of good governance continues to reflect a concern over the effectiveness of the state rather than the equity of the economic system andthe legitimacy of the power ... strengthening governance systems and enhancing governing institutions The modernization of the state, the fight against corruption, the reform of judiciary, the strengthening of legislatures andthe ... despite these research findings, the use of conditionality has expanded in scope and depth in the course of the 1990s As the IMF itself recognizes, the share of programs with structural conditions and...
... that they acknowledge the poor level of understanding of ice behaviour and exclude possible effects of the melting of the big ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica in their predictions; they ... of the land mass of the Earth; humans controlled the flow and levels of 2/3 of the rivers of the Earth; humans had already harvested to the limit or exhausted 2/3 of all marine fisheries; and ... unprecedented impact andthe consequences are global These impacts can be measured from the global to the regional to the individual to the molecular level The next few slides outline and give examples...
... from the NPC.63 The chairperson, vice chairpersons, andthe secretary-general form the Council of Chairmen, which handles the daily work of the Standing Committee.64 The Standing Committee has the ... the one side andthe economy, society, resources, andthe environment on the other,” and to promote family planning for the enhancement of family happiness andthe prosperity of the country.575 ... introduce the newest report in our series, Women of the World: Laws and Policies Affecting their Reproductive Lives–East and Southeast Asia, covering China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and...
... Reincarnation, and to the ideas of the complex soul As the survivors of Atlantis are believed to have been the ancestors of the Egyptians on the one hand, and of the Ancient Peruvians on the other the two ... past the land of Isis the home of the builders of the Pyramids the people of the Sphinx Whether these people were the direct descendants of the people of destroyed Atlantis, the home of the Ancient ... 101] the experiences of the past life, and prepares for the next step The period of rest varies with the degree of attainment gained by the soul, the higher the degree the longer the rest The...
... empowering and trusting people, acknowledging change as norm, and promoting constant feedback” Shuh, Peter (2005) Integrating Agile Development in the Real World p.2 What is Agile? The formula ... to the shorter timescale Manifesto for Agile Software Development Accessible at http://agilemanifesto.org/ Agile Principles Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the ... Work-breakdown structure – Functional specs – Gantt chart – Status reports – Deliver at the end – Learn at the end – Follow the plan – Manage tasks • Agile – Plan as you go – Feature-breakdown structure...
... theworld market and to North America Approvals and certificates Approved products on their own are not always enough for successful exporting A good knowledge of the relevant standards andthe ... Switzerland SFS Suomen Standardisoimisliitlo r.y Finnish standardisation association, Finnish standard Finland STRI The Icelandic Council for Standardization Isländische Normungsorganisation Iceland ... authorities and approval stamps Test authorities and approval stamps in Europe and North America The standard versions of most Moeller devices are approved for use throughout the world, including the...
... than doubled by 2011, propelling Switzerland to the top of theworld ranking The past year has seen a further dramatic rise, making Switzerland the first and only country to have average wealth ... steadily and vigorously since the turn of the century, rising from USD 105,000 at the outset to USD 285,000 by mid-2011 Most of the rise was due to the saving rate and asset price increases, rather ... second highest in theworld – after Switzerland and ahead of Norway More surprisingly, perhaps, its median wealth of USD 222,000 is the highest in theworld A noticeable feature is the composition...
... increased and income inequality especially in Sweden, the US andthe UK rose In the UK, the number of families below the poverty line rose by 60 per cent in the 1980s, and in the Netherlands by ... periods, the commercialisation of water andthe neglect of water and range land conservation led to the decimation of the herds andthe pastoralists who represent 50 percent of the population TheWorld ... panacea for the major ills of the Third World was foisted on the latter in no time Aid programmes in the form of ‘Development Aid’ from the rich Northern countries andtheWorld Bank (WB) and commercial...
... countries in our sample, India and Indonesia, reflecting both the importance of land and agricultural assets andthe lack of financial development On the other hand, the share of nonfinancial assets ... compiled from theWorld Development Indicators of theWorld Bank andtheWorld Income Inequality Database, with priority given to the most recently available year The “ungrouping” program was then used ... contributor to the project The aim of the Credit Suisse Global Wealth project is to provide the best available estimates of the wealth holdings of households around theworld for the period since the year...